Voters in New Jersey approved three ballot questions on Tuesday that dedicate millions of dollars toward property tax relief, the state parks system and transportation. Now the professionals will decide how to spend the money. Question No. 1...

Control of the Senate depends on one narrow race that has kept the political spotlight and the nation's attention on the region. Alabama As much of the nation turned toward the Democrats, Alabama continued a long-term trend of Southern...

IN a year when Democrats in Washington need as much campaign cash as they can scrape together to try take back control of the House of Representatives, the little-publicized primary race in New Jersey's 13th Congressional District threatens to dry up...

June 30, 2005, Thursday

PITY the lieutenant governor. He (or, often, she) is the Rodney Dangerfield of politics. The public figure for whom the adjective ''ceremonial'' is a common bedfellow. Al DelBello got so tired of playing second fiddle to New York's governor, Mario M....

January 2, 2005, Sunday

Assembly Speaker Albio Sires has proposed legislation to establish a lieutenant governor's office. Currently, the president of the State Senate serves as acting governor in the event the governor is unable to serve, but Mr. Sires and some other...

After a four-month trial, a federal jury deadlocked Wednesday on an extortion charge against a North Jersey businessman accused of taking payoffs from illegal gambling operations while he was a close political ally of Albio Sires, now the speaker of...